Umbraco ApplicationEventHandler Not Firing For User - umbraco

Question

I am trying to send an email to the administrator when a new user is created in the CMS. But when I create a new user while debugging in VS, the first breakpoint at "umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.New += User_New;" is never hit. I am using version 7.3.4 of Umbraco.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web
using Umbraco.Core;
using umbraco.BusinessLogic;
namespace NewUserEmail
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for NewUserNotification
/// </summary>
public class NewUserNotification : ApplicationEventHandler
{
public NewUserNotification()
{
umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.New += User_New;
}
private void User_New(umbraco.BusinessLogic.User sender, EventArgs e)
{
System.Net.Mail.MailMessage message = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
message.To.Add("nw#email.com");
message.Subject = "This is the Subject line";
message.From = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("From#online.microsoft.com");
message.Body = "This is the message body";
System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtp = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("yoursmtphost");
smtp.Send(message);
}
}
}

Answer 1

I think because you are using ApplicationEventHandler, you'll want to override the ApplicationStarted method instead of use your constructor.
The way I used needs using Umbraco.Core.Services;.
protected override void ApplicationStarted(UmbracoApplicationBase umbracoApplication, ApplicationContext applicationContext)
{
//I usually use Members for things like this but if you want user, it'll be UserService.SavedUser +=...
MemberService.Saved += User_New;
}
private void User_New(IMemberService sender, EventArgs e)
{
System.Net.Mail.MailMessage message = new System.Net.Mail.MailMessage();
message.To.Add("nw#email.com");
message.Subject = "This is the Subject line";
message.From = new System.Net.Mail.MailAddress("From#online.microsoft.com");
message.Body = "This is the message body";
System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient smtp = new System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient("yoursmtphost");
smtp.Send(message);
}
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